Graduate School of North American Studies, John K. Kennedy Institut, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany

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The attacks on the World Trade Center and the ensuing War on Terror stand as images that mark the 21st century’s fall into a permanent state of emergency, manifest in the suspension of civil liberties, preemptive and irregular warfare, and a disregard for international law.